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So I wanted to change it up a little bit this time. My good friend, a guy I’ve known my whole life, fellow NY Mets fan, and partner in crime from back in the day Mr. Daniel Arfin joins us this week in giving us an insight to his workout regime. I am lucky enough to talk to my friend regularly, and I’m always hearing about his Crossfit endeavors. Crossfit is a program developed to offer a full-body workout that combines elements of cardio, weight lifting, gymnastics, core training and more to prepare the body for the unexpected. From their website: “CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.” Arfin is so enthusiastic about it and I’m always amazed hearing about what he did next; which is basically on a daily basis. He truly is a beast. Crossfit routines really fascinate me and I have so much respect for this man. That is why I thought it would be a good idea for you to hear about it from him. A guy who completed Shaun T’s Insanity program with what seemed like ease, here is someone with credibility in my book. This is what Arfin had to say:

I’ve been in love with Crossfit for almost 10 months. For the large part of those 10 months I’ve been in the box 5 or 6 times a week. I’ve found it to be right up my alley in achieving balanced fitness. It addresses all areas to make you into a complete athlete. Many people, including myself for a long time struggle with getting themselves to the gym consistently because they get bored of doing the same thing. Crossfit hooked me so fast because there is always so much variety. So it isn’t just challenging, it’s interesting. It almost feels like you’ve never tried it before every day because there’s so many different things to do. There are often several points of technique for whatever movement you’re doing. Whether it’s for strength and you’re doing Olympic weightlifting movements, or if you’re just simply jumping on top of a box. Everything looks easy watching someone who is experienced perform it, but it’s very easy to have one misstep and not do the movement correctly. Especially with the Olympic weightlifts, it is imperative you do the movement right to keep moving up in weight, and to not get injured. But there’s no prerequisite to joining in. You can always scale the movements so that it’s tailored to what you can do. If there’s a certain type of movement you’re not quite comfortable doing, you can do something else in its place. An example of that would be if you do not want to do handstand push-ups against the wall, you could take a 45lb. plate and press it above your head instead. Or if you can’t do strict pull-ups, you can use a band to assist you. This way you’re still getting the benefit of the workout because you’re not really changing the movement, you’re only adjusting the workout to what you can do so you will always benefit from it. It is for this reason that anyone can benefit from doing Crossfit so above all else that is why I recommend it.